by David Brooks | Dec 29, 2016 | Blog
My favorite stories involve explaining ordinary things that we hardly think about (like, say, snow fences). For several years I’ve wanted to write one about telephone – sorry, utility poles. I finally got around to it last week, and it was published on...
by David Brooks | Dec 28, 2016 | Blog
I have a fairly long driveway next to an open field, and at least once every winter, snow drifts across it to the point where things get dicey without all-wheel drive. For two decades, I have talked about setting up a snow fence to keep out the drifts, but I’ve never...
by David Brooks | Dec 22, 2016 | Blog, Newsletter
Note: Subscribers to the GraniteGeek weekly newsletter saw this story yesterday. You can subscribe for free here. You probably heard the news Wednesday about a federal/private initiative to develop an Advanced Regenerative Manufacturing Institute in Manchester, with...
by David Brooks | Dec 22, 2016 | Blog, Newsletter
Indoor agriculture is an intriguing concept – which is why it was the topic of discussion for Science Cafe Concord in October – so I was drawn to a story in The Sunday Telegraph of Nashua by Don Himsel about a non-farming family looking to get involved in...
by David Brooks | Dec 14, 2016 | Blog
A one-gigawatt offshore wind project called Bay State Wind is being planned for an area south of Martha’s Vineyard – Eversource Energy has just bought into the project, saying it will be responsible for the onshore transmission infrastructure while Dong...
by David Brooks | Dec 14, 2016 | Blog, Newsletter
The InterOperability Lab at UNH has a national, even international, reputation as a good place for testing and certification of network devices and helping the development of standards. So I’m happy to see that they’ve begun a program focusing on security...
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